Universal Healthcare

 

 

Universal Healthcare Coverage inspires a love-hate reaction from most of us.

On one side, we would like to see everyone covered.  People should not have do die or live in agony due to diseases or as a result of accidents, simply because they can’t pay the doctor.  Not in America.

On the other side, we don’t wants to spend money to heal a person who is doing everything possible to get sick, or who does not care about his/her own health.

On the first case, we have the responsible individual who got sick or got into an accident.  Most of us will agree to chip-in to bring him/her back to health with our tax dollars.

On the other, we have the smokers, morbidly obese, drug users, alcoholics or those having unprotected sex with multiple partners.  Once they get sick, taxpayers money should not be used to temporarily bringing them back to health.   Add to this category those who being able to work (or contribute) to pay for their healthcare, chose not to.  We should not all pay to cure deliberate self-inflicted sickness, or those who don’t care.  It is an issue of taking responsibility for one’s own wellbeing.

I suggest that to be covered with taxpayer’s dollars, any applicant needs to visit the doctor once every three years.  The doctor can then give them a clean bill of health responsibility, meaning the person does not fall into the categories mentioned above.  We all want to help that person.  If they fall short, the person would have advice on how to ‘clean up and straighten up’, and go back for a clean bill in a few months.

If someone is doing everything possible to hurt themselves, choosing a lifestyle that almost but warranties that they will get seriously or chronically sick, demanding hundreds of thousands of dollars of our money, just to continue to hurt themselves a little longer, we should not be burdened with the bill.

Why pay to bring back to health somebody who is getting sick on purpose?  I.e.: why provide a new liver to an alcoholic that will ruin the new one, at our (enormous) expense?

This should reduce the number of tax-insured individuals to about half.  We can pay for that.

This is also an incentive for people to live responsible lives, a tenet of our American Way of Life.

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